The topic for both sessions will be: How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design and the following is the abstract:
With SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has added a major new feature to help optimize OLTP database implementations by persisting your data primarily in RAM. Of course it isn't that simple, internally everything that uses this ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!)
The first issue that arose in my ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I am!)
Before ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I ...

This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on the prefix of this blog's title. It is a work in progress as I explore the effects of the new in-memory model. I would love comments that tell me that I am wrong (especially if it turns out that I ...

Douglas McDowell (EVP Finance) takes the stage (no kilt), and talks numbers. PASS has an impressive $1MM in reserves as a ''rainy day'' fund. Last fiscal year they spent $7.6MM on community; 30% of that was spent internationally.
Bill Graziano comes on (no kilt) to say goodbye and thanks to the outgoing board members, Douglas McDowell, Rob ...